Alice - Expressive fixtures generator

Relying on fzaninotto/Faker, Alice allows you to create a ton of fixtures/fake data for use while developing or testing your project. It gives you a few essential tools to make it very easy to generate complex data with constraints in a readable and easy to edit way, so that everyone on your team can tweak the fixtures if needed.

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Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Example
3. Getting Started
4. Basic Usage
5. Detailed Usage
6. Complete Reference
7. Creating Fixtures
8. Fixture Ranges
9. Calling Methods
10. Specifying Constructor Arguments
11. Custom Setter
12. Optional Data
13. Handling Unique Constraints
14. Handling Relations
15. References
16. Multiple References
17. Self reference
18. Passing references to providers
19. Keep Your Fixtures Dry
20. Fixture Inheritance
21. Including files
22. Variables
23. Parameters
24. Customize Data Generation
25. Faker Data
26. Reuse generated data using objects value
27. Custom Faker Data Providers
28. Event handling with Processors
29. Third-party libraries

Other references:

• Tutorial: Using Alice in Symfony

Installation

This is installable via Composer as nelmio/alice:

composer require nelmio/alice

Example

Here is a complete example of entity declaration:

Nelmio\Entity\User:
    user{1..10}:
        username: '<username()>'
        fullname: '<firstName()> <lastName()>'
        birthDate: '<date()>'
        email: '<email()>'
        favoriteNumber: '50%? <numberBetween(1, 200)>'

Nelmio\Entity\Group:
    group1:
        name: Admins
        owner: '@user1'
        members: '<numberBetween(1, 10)>x @user*'
        created: '<dateTimeBetween("-200 days", "now")>'
        updated: '<dateTimeBetween($created, "now")>'

You can then load them easily with:

$objects = \Nelmio\Alice\Fixtures::load(__DIR__.'/fixtures.yml', $objectManager);

For more information, refer to the documentation.

Third-party libraries

• Symfony:
  • hautelook/AliceBundle
  • h4cc/AliceFixturesBundle
  • knplabs/rad-fixtures-load
• Nette
  • Zenify/DoctrineFixtures
• Zend Framework 2:
  • ma-si/aist-alice-fixtures

License

Released under the MIT License.